Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23116, Jedediah Gooch, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Gooch, Jedediah Mary
N. 23116
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11870
Maine
Sedediah Gooch
of York Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt: commanded by Col Baldwin in the Chap s own line for 21 mo 12 d -
Died 22 nd Aug t 1832.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 71 Dollars 31 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Jan 1833 and sent to J. A. Osborn Dr. Kennebec.
Arrears to the 14th of _____ Semi-ant. allowance ending _____
Amount due from 14 March 5 1831. To the day of his $104. 57 death 22 Aug t 1832. 17 mo 18 d }
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 18
Certificate issued in favor of Mary Gooch his widow

832.
Maine.
Mary Gooch
widow of Sedediah Gooch
who was a Private
in the Mass line
for 21 Mo. & 15 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 71 Dollars & 31 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of July, 1843 and sent to
E. E. Dourne Kennebunk Maine!
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 5.
Not July 8.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss.
ON this ninth day of April 1818, before me, the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the first Eastern District, in said Commonwealth, personally appears Jedediah Gouch resident in Wells in said county of York and state aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration—in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled “an act to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war.” That he, the said Jedediah Gouch , being
now sixty six years of age did the last of April or the first of May 1775 enlist, as a private soldier for the term of eight months into the American Army, under Capt James Hubbard, in the regiment commanded by Colo Doolittle, which was a Massachusetts regiment, that he marched immediately after enlisting with said company to the camp at Cambridge, and continued to do his duty there until the said term of service had expired, when he again about the first of January 1776 enlisted for the term of twelve months, into a company commanded by Capt John Wood in the regiment of which Loammi Baldwin was Colo and which was a Massachusetts regiment and upon the continental establishment—and that he the said Gouch continued to do his duty in the said company and regiment until the said twelve months had expired, which was Jan'y 1 st 1777 when by the desire of the officers he continued for the term of six weeks beyond said enlistment doing his duty; and that when that time was elapsed he was honorably discharged & returned home but does not now recollect that he had any written discharge
And that he is reduced in his circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
Benj a Greene
I BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern District, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jedediah Gouch did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. And I do further certify that the said Declarant is in reduced circumstances & in need of assistance from his country for support
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Wells  Wells this
twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord 181 8
Benj a Greene

Jedediah Gooch

I Jedidiah Gooch of Kennebec in the county of York and State of Maine aged seventy nine years testify and declare that I was placed on the pension list of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 for services in the revolutionary war with Great Britain as more fully set forth in my original application for a pension. I was a soldier in Capt John Woods company in Col Baldins Regiment of the Massachusetts line in which I served one full year - I was also a soldier in Capt Hughes company of Andover troops in which I served over nine months was at the battle which resulted in the capture of the Hessians by the Americans - I resided in that part of Wells called Kennebec at the time of my first application for a pension and still reside there was born in Saco in the State of Maine in the year 1753 - was discharged from the army at Morristown in the State of New Jersey. Was stricken from the pension list on account of poverty, and applied to be restored in 1829 but was not successful - Jedidiah Gooch
Personally appeared before the undersigned, the above named Jedidiah Gooch & signed to the above declaration July 23. 1832
Adams Warr
I certify that the above named Gooch by reason of bodily indisposition was unable to attend to make his declaration in his own words J. H. L. P. for the Dist. Attorney Adams Warr. Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the within named Jedediah Gooch was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states
John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Jedediah Gooch for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this seventh day of August A.D. 1852
John Nussey Clerk
Jedediah Gooch is now so totally infirmed in his mental faculties as to be incapable of giving the least account of any of his services in the Revolutionary war or make any explanations - his friends desire that the Department will proceed without, and allow him all that is satisfactorily proved in his original application on which his original Pension certificate was founded -
July 3-1852 -
B. Palmer For Jedediah Gooch

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Seven two thirds of five acres of land and flats near Hannibal River worth but very little if any thing it is undivided and the whole has a common and ever has been so. I have in all about thirty acres of land the most valuable part of which is mortgaged to Thomas Louis others for about $700 and they have possession of the largest part. I have the improvement of an old house on the land no other property.
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Jedediah Gooch who, by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of
infirmities and old age - Jedediah Gooch
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Myself 77 much infirm by age   Mary, my wife 61 Sick and many years unable to work or assist in the family  
THAT since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property.
The property above exhibited is the same that I owned when my first schedule was made. I owned some real estate in common with Job and Isaac Emery one third part of which was mine and which we have sold to Capt Daniel Curtis for the sum of $700 one third of the money I rec d from which I paid a debt to Barnabas Palmer of $100 and to James Titcomb due the estate estate of his father $40. The residue has been applied to the support of my family.
I owe about $800 in several debts and all of which I am unable to pay all the property I possess would not sell for $200 probably not 3/18 v.
SWORN to and declared on the 12 th day of February 1829 before
Ezekiel Whitman
I Jeremiah Bradbury Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Jedediah Gooch did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedules thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One hundred dollars and the income cents thereat six dollars yearly & no more
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this second day of March 1829
Jere. Bradbury CLERK of the C. C. P.

225 Mary Gooch widow of Judah Pension Me
ad 7 Aug 38
Stearns
Mained 25 Feb 79.
about 21.12 or per
$71. \frac{31}{100}
no deduction
E.E. Bourne Kennebec Me
225 226 227

State of Maine
York County ss.
On this seventh day of August 1838 personally appeared before me William A Hayes Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of York, Mary Gooch a resident of Kennebunk in the County of York, aged eighty eight two years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Iedediah Gooch, otherwise called Iedediah Goog, who was a pensioner of the United States, under the laws of 1818 and 1832, and who served as stated in his original declarations in the Pension Department.
That she was married to the said Iedediah Gooch on the twenty fifth day of February seventeen hundred and seventy nine, That her husband the aforesaid Iedediah Gooch died on the twenty second day of August 1832. That she was not married prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four -
Witness
Mary _____ Gooch
E E Bourn
Subscribed and sworn to before me - the said Mary Gooch being unable from bodily infirmity to attend court
Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate York County Maine

I George W Wells Pastor of the First Congregational Church in the town of Barnstable in the County of York and State of Maine hereby certify that under the Head "Marriages" in the Records of said church is the following.
Serenteen hundred and serenty nine February twenty fifth is Jerediah Googe & Mary Emery" and the same is a true extract from said records with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows.
"1779. Feb 25"
I George W Wells above named before and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the Church aforesaid and the above is a true copy of the Records with the exception above named as certified by me - I further certify that the aforesaid name, Googe, is generally spelle'd, Gooch
George W Wells.
State of Maine York County ss. August 3 1888 - Personally appeared George W Wells who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me - Edward E Bourne Justice of the Peace

I Benjamin Larabee of Kennebec in the county of York and State of Maine gentleman, do on oath testify and declare that I have always known Sedecial Good of Kennebec, who was a revolutionary soldier and pensioner, from the time I was a small boy, sixty years ago - said Se- decial, otherwise called Sedecial was married to Mary Emery nearly sixty or years ago - His oldest child is between fifty and sixty years of age - Said Sedecial has been dead six or seven years, and Mary Good now living is his widow, the same person be- fore named, having never been married since his death -
Ben ja Larabee
State of Maine
York County ss. Personally appeared Benjamin Larabee who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him sub- scribed
Before me Edward E. Bowers Justice of the Peace

State of Maine.
York ss. I John Sheele Register of the Court of Probate within and for the coun- ty of York, it being a Court of Record, hereby certify that William H. Hayes is Judge of said Court of Probate, and that Edward E. Bourne is a justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signatures to the papers hereto annexed and pur- porting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and thirty eight.
John Sheele { Register of Probate York County

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
23116
File No. 23116
Mary Gooch
Wid. of
Jedediah Gooch
Rev. Rev. War
Act: March 3 d 1843.
Index:—Vol. A, Page 282
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Maine
164
Mary Gooch, widow of Isaiah Gooch,
who was a pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832 and who died on the 22 d Aug t 1832. of York Co in the State of Maine who was a Pin - in the Capt n commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col Baldwin in the M a p t er line for 21. months and 18 days.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 71 Dollars 31 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1832
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Sept r 28 and sent to E. E. Bourn, Kennebec, Maine.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept r $178.27 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th m. 35.65
$213.92
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdick - Clerk Book A - Vol. 1 - Page 10.

See letter to B. Palmer 5 May 1829 do do 19 Dec 1832
10.339
Maine
Sedediah Gooch
of Wells dist. in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of May 1819 and sent to Geo: W. Wittingford Esq. Kennebec, Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 \frac{22}{30} 16.0 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Dec 1819 - 48.00
$: 134.00
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
York County

Sedidiah Gooch of Wells, Dist. Maine.
First Revolutionary Soldier Col. Baldwin's Regt.
Mass Line 1775 - 1776
Dec 9 th April 1818
Admitted -

(Collection as Evidence)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency JOHN BROOKS, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know ye, That Samuel Jackson Prescott Esquire is a Notary Public and a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum within and for the County of Suffolk —
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
J. Brooks.

Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof,  I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this fifteenth day of July A. D. 1818, and in the forty third year of the Independence of the United States America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
Hlden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

United States
of America.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk, ss. } Boston. }
ON this fourteenth Day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me, SAMUEL JACKSON PRESCOTT, Esquire, Notary Pub- lic, by Legal Authority duly admitted and sworn, and dwelling in BOSTON, aforesaid, and a Justice of the Peace, and of the Quorum, within and for the said County of Suffolk, personally appeared
Sylvanus Wood of Nobourn in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth aforesaid, Gentleman, and formerly a Lieutenant in the war of the Revolution, and in the years 1776 and 1777 an Ensign in the said war of the Revolution, in the Com- pany commanded by Captain John Wood, in the Regi- ment of which Loami Baldwin was Colonel, in the Massachusetts Line; at the same time came also and personally appeared Job Emery of Wells, in the County of York, in said Commonwealth, Yeoman, who was a private soldier in said Capt. John Wood's said Com- pany, and in the same Regiment commanded by the said Colo. Baldwin, in said Massachusetts Line, and after being duly cautioned and sworn, severally made solemn oath that they are well acquainted with Jedidiah Gooch of the aforesaid Town of Wells, Yeoman, now present, and that it is a fact within their own knowledge that he, the said Jedidiah Gooch, was a Continental soldier in the said Captain John Wood's company, in the said Regiment, in the Massachusetts Line, of which the said

said Joami Baldwin was Colonel, and that they, the said Deponents, both & each of them, viz. the said Sylvanus Wood, as an Ensign, and the said Job Emery, as a private soldier, served in the said Capt. John Wood's company against the common enemy one full year , without intermission or absence, and that he, the said Jedidiah Gooch was during the whole of said term of one full year , to wit, from about the first of March 1776 to about the first of March 1777, a private soldier in said Capt. John Wood's said company, and present and acting against the common enemy as a good and faithful soldier, without intermission or absence , during the whole of said term, as aforesaid, and also that the said company & Regiment were on the Continental establishment, and that all the Officers of said Company & Regiment were Continental Officers, and also that the said Jedidiah Gooch during the whole of said term of one year sustained the character of a good soldier, as aforesaid, - and the said Deponents also made solemn oath that they verily believe that said Jedidiah Gooch, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, needs assistance from his Country for support - and further that they, the said Deponents, are altogether disinterested witnesses. The said Deponents also severally made solemn oath that at the expiration of said one year, as aforesaid, they were both, together with said Jedidiah Gooch, were honourably discharged from the said Continental service - although according to their present recollection

no individual soldier of the aforesaid Company and Regiment received a written discharge. —
In true testimony whereof, both and each of the said Deponents have hereunto subscribed their names, in my presence, and have been duly & severally sworn to the truth of the Premises, by oath solemnly taken before me, the said Notary and Justice. In Witness whereof, and for making these Presents of full force and effect, and as the said Deponents are persons not only disinterested, but also of good name and credit, I, the said Notary and Justice, do hereby declare the same to be a Public Act, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to the same; and in testimony thereof I have not only hereunto subscribed my name, but have also affixed my Seal of Office, the day and year first within written. —
Silvanus Wood Job Emery
J. Prescott, Notary Public, Justice of the Peace & of the Quorum.

Jedidiah Gooch
Sept 1819-
No-36
From the late Jedidiah Gooch
See explanation at the bottom below clerks certificate and seal -
Old papers under out of 1818 wanted
In let. B. Palmer Esq. 15. April 33

Jedediah Gook's. Application for Pension.
When was first Schedule made? -
Sept 19 th

State of Maine.
County of York, ss.
ON this 12 th day of February 1829 in open Court, being the Court of Common Pleas , held at Alfred , within and for the County of York on the second Tuesday of February , A. D. 1829 Present the Hon. Ebenezer D. Dyer Justice of said Court; said Court keeping a record of their proceedings, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having the power to fine and imprison, and being a Court of Record in said county, personally appeared Sedediah Gooch of Hennibunk resident in said county aged seventy seven years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the 1st May 1820, that he the said Sedediah Gooch enlisted for the term of one year day of December in the year 1775 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by captain John Wood in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the _____ Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said corps until December 1776 when he was discharged from the said service, in Morristown in the State of New Jersey that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property.
And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Sedediah Gooch
Offered as evidence of the identity of the officer cont.
1832 79 1753

Mary Gooch; title to pension certificate of Jedediah Gooch, and evidence of his death -
21.12
Amount due the widow from 4 th Mch 1831 to Aug t . 22 d 1832, 17 mo 18 d at the rate of $71.01, is $104.57.
71.01 5.94 17.82 2.97 11.88 5.94 101.01 14.85 3.56 1.48 14.57 1.48 104.57 2.96 2

Court of Probate June term 1883.
State of Maine. York county, ss.
Be it known that on this third day of June A.D. 1883, it has been satisfactorily proved in open court, being a court of record that Jedediah Gooch, a Revolutionary Soldier and applicant for a Pension under the law of the United States of the Seventh of June 1842, died at Kennebec in said county on the twenty-second day of August last, and that Mary Gooch of said Kennebec is the widow of said Jedediah Gooch, deceased.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court and subscribed my name this third day of June A.D. 1883.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Registrar of the Court of Probate York county.

Remscheid Aug 7. 1838
Le Sir
I herewith send the declarations and evidence of sundry widows for the pension under the law of July 7 th . The evidence is complete I believe according to the forms prescribed. In the case of Patty Young as it is proved that there are no records for 8 months, from what can now be ascertained, the publication and other evidence I presume is amply sufficient. There being no person in this vicinity alive who was at the wedding.
Hon J L Edwards Com. of Pensions.
Respectfully Your obedt Servt E E Bourn

James Osborn Jun P.M.
John M. Daffield Esq.
Clerk in Pension-Office
Washington City

Kennebunk 10 June 1833 John M. Daffield Esqr
Dear Sir, At the request of Maj. B. Palmer of this town I enclose the evidence of Mary Gooch's title to the Pension Certificate due Jedidiah Gooch - Mr Palmer has forwarded the papers of Isaac Sherman and John White to Mr Edwards, to day - he desires that they may be examined with the other three named in his letter to Mr E. and certificates sent for each with the one enclosed.
Respectfully your Obedient Servt
James Osborn Jun.

777 Mary Gooch
Admit, private p g 1. 31.
Maine Agency
Send to
E. E. Bourne
Kennebec
Maine

State of Maine
York County ss.
On this twentieth day of April 1843, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of York, Mary Gooch, a resident of Kennebunk in the County of York, aged eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3 d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war - That she is the widow of Sedediah Gooch, who was a private and served as stated in his original declaration for a pension under the Act of 1832 - That under the Act of July 7. 1830, she received a pension of seventy one dollars and thirty one cents a year. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Witness -
Mary her  Gooch
Mary Drown
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written, the said declarant being personally known to me.
Edward E. Bourne Justice of the Peace

State of Maine York County Ss
I William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of York and state aforesaid do hereby certify that Edward E Bourne Esqr is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his com- mission was dated on the 25th day of June A D 1841 and will expire on the 25th day of June A D 1848 and that his signature hereinbefore written is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 25th day of April A D 1843. William Hammond Register of the Court of Probate York County